14-letter words containing c, l, e, n, h, r
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- chronicle play — a drama based on a historical subject
- chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- clincher-built — clinker-built (def 2).
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
- coherent light — light in which the electromagnetic waves maintain a fixed and predictable phase relationship with each other over a period of time.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- crotonaldehyde — a whitish liquid with pungent and suffocating odor, C 4 H 6 O, soluble in water, used as a solvent, in tear gas, and in organic synthesis.
- dechlorination — the removal of chlorine from a substance
- dichloroethane — a colourless toxic liquid compound that is used chiefly as a solvent. Formula: C2H4Cl2
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- early check-in — An early check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in earlier than the normal time.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- french cruller — cruller (def 2).
- french tickler — a condom designed with knobs, projections, etc.
- french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- geochronologic — Of or pertaining to geochronology.
- ground hemlock — a prostrate yew, Taxus canadensis, of eastern North America, having short, flat needles and red, berrylike fruit.
- hairline crack — a very fine crack
- haitian creole — the creolized French that is the native language of most Haitians.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- heliocentrical — Alternative form of heliocentric.
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- hindu calendar — a lunisolar calendar that governs all Hindu and most Indian festivals, known from about 1000 b.c. and subsequently modified during the 4th and 6th centuries a.d.
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- honey-coloured — having the colour of honey
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
- hyperlactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.